Working long hours
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Not anymore. The odd day I will do 14 odd hours (depends if you say for example driving to Bristol at 3 hours, working until 10pm then starting at 8am the next day, finishing the meeting at 7pm or so then driving home for another 3.5 hours)..
But this is the exception not the rule, because I used to work 12 hours in the office plus 1.5 hours each way commute.. I decided it was not worth killing myself for a job.
But this is the exception not the rule, because I used to work 12 hours in the office plus 1.5 hours each way commute.. I decided it was not worth killing myself for a job.
cheddar said:
18 hours a day 7 days a week, really?
Possibly more like what I used to do in my youth as IT support - work 2 days straight =48 hours. Grab a few hours kip then do maybe another 2 20 hour days. Then you get a bit tired so back it down to maybe 2 further 16 hour days then just a short day on sunday of maybe 6 hours.126 hours, that was my personal best but I used to regularly rack up 90 hour weeks.
Ask again in 'Commercial Break', OP.
My legal maximum is 71 hours (3 x 15, 2 x 13) in a 5-day week, 84 for a 6-dayer.
Theoretically, given enough waiting around with the tachograph on 'break', a 90-hour week is possible.
As someone who is effectively 'at work' from 0600 Monday to late on Friday, the more time I get paid for the better (unless I've got an assignment due, then a few hours in the services of an evening can be very useful!)
My legal maximum is 71 hours (3 x 15, 2 x 13) in a 5-day week, 84 for a 6-dayer.
Theoretically, given enough waiting around with the tachograph on 'break', a 90-hour week is possible.
As someone who is effectively 'at work' from 0600 Monday to late on Friday, the more time I get paid for the better (unless I've got an assignment due, then a few hours in the services of an evening can be very useful!)
I worked for one of the classic american management consultancies for a few years:
- on a 'good' project you averaged 60-65 hours a week
- on a 'tough' project you averaged 75-80 hours a week
I found my limit for sustainable productivity was 65 hours a week - I could manage that consistently, do high-quality work and have a life; any more than that and both my life and quality of work suffered. (65 hours generally manifested itself as 9-11 Monday to Thursday, and 9-6 on Friday).
Worse was a summer as an intern in an investment bank. 90-100 hour weeks. Not pleasant in the slightest.
I'm now a civil servant and its mega-relaxed. I barely ever work more than 60 hours, and an average week is more like 50.
- on a 'good' project you averaged 60-65 hours a week
- on a 'tough' project you averaged 75-80 hours a week
I found my limit for sustainable productivity was 65 hours a week - I could manage that consistently, do high-quality work and have a life; any more than that and both my life and quality of work suffered. (65 hours generally manifested itself as 9-11 Monday to Thursday, and 9-6 on Friday).
Worse was a summer as an intern in an investment bank. 90-100 hour weeks. Not pleasant in the slightest.
I'm now a civil servant and its mega-relaxed. I barely ever work more than 60 hours, and an average week is more like 50.
handpaper said:
Ask again in 'Commercial Break', OP.
My legal maximum is 71 hours (3 x 15, 2 x 13) in a 5-day week, 84 for a 6-dayer.
Theoretically, given enough waiting around with the tachograph on 'break', a 90-hour week is possible.
As someone who is effectively 'at work' from 0600 Monday to late on Friday, the more time I get paid for the better (unless I've got an assignment due, then a few hours in the services of an evening can be very useful!)
How do you get to 71 hours?My legal maximum is 71 hours (3 x 15, 2 x 13) in a 5-day week, 84 for a 6-dayer.
Theoretically, given enough waiting around with the tachograph on 'break', a 90-hour week is possible.
As someone who is effectively 'at work' from 0600 Monday to late on Friday, the more time I get paid for the better (unless I've got an assignment due, then a few hours in the services of an evening can be very useful!)
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